Hurkacz showed an amazing finish in the second batch. He was practically in a lost position, and yet he scored six games in a row and won this game and thus the entire match. He has not had such a match this season yet. He experienced a swing of emotions, but the finish turned out to be extremely happy for him. Happy and brilliant. Such a return can also mean a positive attitude in subsequent duels …
Of course, Hubert will not avoid comparisons to Iga Świątek. He also has great talent. He is still very young and has ten years of great opportunities ahead of him. He can do everything too. And we are just waiting when it all “clicks” and he will move forward like a rocket at the same pace as Świątek. Because we believe that this moment will also come soon. – Hubert in tennis is a complete player. Service, return, forehand, backhand, volley – almost every element is at the highest level. Now it just needs a bit of “toughness” and perhaps a slightly different philosophy of tennis. In such a way that all your extraordinary skills and talents are simplified and you can use them better during matches – emphasizes Wojciech Fibak, our best tennis player of all time.
At the same time adding that the situation in men’s and women’s tennis is definitely different. – We have Djokovic, Nadal and Federer, who have been in charge of all tournaments for several years. If someone wins, it is on the exception. These are undoubtedly the greatest, greatest heroes that our discipline has seen. The scale of the difficulty here is amazing. Breaking through them to the top is extremely difficult. But we remember when Hubert played Wimbledon with Djokovic. He could lead 2–0 in sets. It was poetry. This match could have gone differently, he recalled.
Recently, the inhabitant of Wrocław “misses” Iga. He presented himself very well in Rome, he defeated Andrei Rublev there and was really close to winning over Diego Schwartzman. Świątek played less there. Then Iga shone and he was eliminated in the French Open in the first round. This week Świątek has free time, because after the cancellation of the Chinese part of the season, he is no longer planning to start and can rest. There are more important performances ahead of him. The next one started in Cologne. This is an event in a new covid format. Week after week, two events sponsored by the same sponsor will take place in a city in Germany. The first is bett1HULKS Indoors, the second is bett1HULKS Championships. Their organizers were only licensed for one year. Then, if the world situation returns to normal, the tennis calendar is also to resemble the old days. At this time of the year, professionals should be in Asia and fight there in the prestigious competition in Shanghai.
However, this is a more distant future. Now the Pole faces other challenges. Hurkacz will face Mischa Zverev, the older brother of US Open finalist Alexander. The Pole, seeded from No. 6, will be the favorite in this match, although the German playing atypically may turn out to be an unpleasant and uncomfortable opponent. He is a slightly archaic player who breaks his rivals with frequent attacks at the net. It causes you to lose rhythm surprisingly often. The favorite in Cologne, however, is a higher-ranked member of his family – Sasza. After the last start in France, he was disappointed and wanted to redeem himself.
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